At 19:53 31/08/2008 -0500, Jim Reaves wrote:
How do I paginate in Open Office Writer?
o Go to Insert | Header > or Insert | Footer > to create a header or
footer in the appropriate page style (perhaps Default?).
o Put the cursor into the header or footer.
o Go to Insert | Fields > Page Number to insert the page number
itself. This will count from 1 in the material that has the relevant
page style. Position and format the inserted page number as required.
I am working on a book and I wish to move from one chapter to
another and paginate from beginning to the end of the chapter. this
means that one chapter may begin with (e.g.) 110; another may begin
(e.g.) 130. How do I get Open Office Writer to count and paginate
from 110 to 130, as an example.
There are various ways of doing this, all but one of which appear not
quite to work as I would expect. This is the only one I know that
gets everything right:
o Put the cursor into the first paragraph of the chapter. (This
might be the title, of course.)
o Go to Format | Paragraph... | Text Flow (or right-click |
Paragraph... | Text Flow).
o Under Breaks, tick Insert, set Type to Page and Position to Before.
o Now tick With Page Style, select the appropriate page style from
the drop-down list (Default?), and then set your starting page number
(110 in your example) in the "Page number" box.
(Incidentally, don't be tempted to modify the paragraph *style*
instead of the individual first paragraph, or every paragraph will
start on a new page and all pages will be numbered 110!)
Although you have asked for the first paragraph to have a page break
before it, this method will (helpfully) not produce an initial blank
page. At least, you will not see a separate page numbered "1" before
your real first page, numbered "110". But Writer has another trick
up its sleeve. If you print a book double-sided, it expects you to
want odd numbered pages to be right-hand pages ("rectos") and even
numbered pages to be left-hand pages ("versos"). So it will offer to
arrange this by printing your page 110 on the back of the first sheet
of paper. Go to File | Page Preview (or use the Page Preview button
in the Standard toolbar) and you will see an initial "automatically
inserted blank page" which will achieve this end.
If you don't want this to happen (or if you are printing single-sided
anyway), go to Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Print |
Other, and remove the tick from "Print automatically inserted blank
pages". Alternatively, you can reach the same option on the fly via
the Options... button in the print dialogue.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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